Miscellaneous

64 entries in Illusions / Harmed & Healed / Miscellaneous
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
To cut off ones head, and to laie it in a platter, &c: which the jugglers call the decollation of John Baptist decapitation illusion
Related to 1584
The Discoverie of Witchcraft (Issue XXXIII)
198
How to seeme to cut off a mans head, it is called the decollation of John Baptist decapitation illusion
Related to 1634
The Art of Legerdemain Discovered
34
Colonel Stodare The Indian Basket Trick
1876
Modern Magic
477
Laurie Ireland The Human Pin Cushion Torture Box woman standing in box is pierced with spikes
 		1937
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1937)
5
The Sword Box
1938
Greater Magic
955
The New Sword Cabinet
1938
Greater Magic
956
U. F. Grant The Head Pincushion
1938
Greater Magic
957
Al Baker One Night idea for dagger chest illusion
 		Feb. 1944
The Phoenix (Issue 54)
221
Alyett Le grand supplice illusion act, person is beheaded and interchanges with executioner, followed by german translation "Die grosse Qual"
 		Mar. 1946
La Baguette Magique (Issue 8)
5
Bob Evison Humor-Hypnose piercing a person's head with a sword, under handkerchief, only images
Also published here 1954
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 15 No. 1)
173
Lane Bateman Arm Cutting Illusion Plans box with hinge, arm inside is cut and box can be folded to show separation, construction details
 		1959
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1959)
31
The Sword Box
1972
Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 7
344
The Penetrating Steel Bars
1972
Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 7
347
The Indestructible Girl
1972
Tarbell Course in Magic — Volume 7
350
David "Fu Manchu" Bamberg The Cremation Illusion assistant is burnt in a cabinet and skeleton can be seen, then assistant appears somewhere else
 		1973
The Oriental Magic of the Bambergs
219
Rudy Roxo The Chest of Celestial Bliss spike box
 		1974
The Conjurors' Book of Stage Illusions
30
The Sword Cabinet with vanish ans reappearance
 		1976
The Big Book of Magic
265
The Cremation Illusion burnt in a box
 		1976
The Big Book of Magic
273
The Indian Basket Illusion person vanishes and appears in basket, sword is pushed through basket
 		1976
The Big Book of Magic
281
The Guillotine Illusioin
1976
The Big Book of Magic
285
Blutlose Chirurgie patter
 		Dec. 1978
Intermagic (Vol. 5 No. 4)
128
Theo "Okito" Bamberg Okito Sawing an Arm in Half inside a box
 		1978/76
More Classic Magic with Apparatus
260
Jack Hughes The French Guillotine illusion, head guillotine
 		1981
Jack Hughes World of Magic — Volume One
13
Jack Hughes The Homicide Illusion assistant in cabinet, cabinet is sawed in half, folded and pierced with rod
 		1981
Jack Hughes World of Magic — Volume One
144
Jack Hughes Dagger Chest daggers through head
 		1981
Jack Hughes World of Magic — Volume One
176
Jack Hughes Television Head Chest dagger chest with Television design
 		1981
Jack Hughes World of Magic — Volume One
178
Peter Wilker Gedanken zum Schwerterkasten on the sword box
 		1983
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 44 No. 3)
84
Terry Seabrooke The Neck Spiker bits of business for Jack Hughes Neck Spiker, spike through spectator's neck
Inspired by
  • Jack Hughe's "The Neck Spiker" in "The Jack Hughes World of Magic - Volume 2" 1985
 1986
Seabrooke's Book
79
Jim Steinmeyer Perforation girl in box penetrated by multiple long knifes
 		1991
Device and Illusion
31
Jim Steinmeyer The Lady in the Puzzle person trapped in puzzle box which is taken apart and reassembled
 		1991
Device and Illusion
93
Harry Anderson Arm Amputation chopping hand illusion with meat cleaver
 		1993
Wise Guy
51
Alan Wakeling Excalibur Substitution Trunk combined with sword cabinet, method not described
 		1993
The Magic of Alan Wakeling
302
Alan Wakeling, MacDonald Birch Divided in Four kind of sawing into four pieces, method not described
 		1993
The Magic of Alan Wakeling
308
Alan Wakeling The Spiker modernized sword basked with vanishing and reappearing woman, method not described
 		1993
The Magic of Alan Wakeling
314
Alan Wakeling The Electric Maiden modernized Iron Maiden, penetration by many spikes
 		1993
The Magic of Alan Wakeling
329
Jim Steinmeyer The Plate Glass Mystery
  • Conjuring
person pierced by glass plates in box
Inspired by
  • P. T. Selbit's glass plate illusion
 May 1993
Magic (Vol. 2 No. 9)
51
Tom Stone Impromptu Interlude hand through body of spectator
 		1996
The Warpsmith Returns
36
Gary Darwin Darwin's Exorcist Live! Woman brought on stage begins to get possessed by a demon, head floats around, body levitates etc.
 		1998
Black Art Breakthroughs
39
Chad Sanborn The Cloned Lady Hand pulled off a lady, and then put back
 		1998
Black Art Breakthroughs
42
Andrew Mayne One Vicious Paper-Cut strange interlude with a paper bag and head, head apparently removed and placed in bag
 		1998
Mad Mojo
44
Andrew Mayne A Cool Thing to Do When You Have a Towel on Your Head head twister using a towel
Also published here 1998
Mad Mojo
52
Jim Steinmeyer The Three-Space Mystery
  • Conjuring
tubes penetrate cabinet with person inside, mirror
 		Sep. 1999
Magic (Vol. 9 No. 1)
81
Masklyn ye Mage Innerspection from Daemon's Diary, performer inserts his whole head into an assistant's mouth who is lying on his back
 		Oct. 2000
Genii (Vol. 63 No. 10)
23
Paul Osborne Crushing a Woman
  • Osborne Illusions
 		Feb. 2001
Genii (Vol. 64 No. 2)
66
Paul Osborne Divido center vanishes
 		June 2001
Genii (Vol. 64 No. 6)
24
Paul Osborne Lumberjack's Dream head sawn off
 		June 2001
Genii (Vol. 64 No. 6)
26
Paul Osborne, Tim White Tim White's Jungillusion cage, combined with Things that Go Bump in the Night
 		June 2001
Genii (Vol. 64 No. 6)
30
Paul Osborne So That's How It Works!
  • Osborne Illusions
with fake explanation
 		Aug. 2001
Genii (Vol. 64 No. 8)
18
David Berglas Magic Fingers small illusion, hand on a black board, fingers can be moved away from the hand
 		2002
The Mind & Magic of David Berglas
165
Andrew Mayne Facelifter box with cut out is placed over head, head is turned, stretched and eventually removed
 		2002
Facelifter
5
Paul Osborne Sword Holders
  • Osborne Illusions
 		Feb. 2003
Genii (Vol. 66 No. 2)
18
Paul Osborne The Torture Screens
  • Osborne Illusions
sword box
 		June 2003
Genii (Vol. 66 No. 6)
14
Paul Osborne Abbott's "Painless Surgery"
  • Osborne Illusions
hand is cut off on a board
 		Oct. 2003
Genii (Vol. 66 No. 10)
18
Andrew Mayne Twist-O-Rama head twister using a towel
Also published here 2003
Body Morphin'
32
Andrew Mayne The Incredible Elevator Shrinking Machine gag, apparently shrinking in elevator
 		2003
Body Morphin'
34
Andrew Mayne Light Storm assistant holding lamp penetrates stomach of performer, with held board as cover
 		2004
Light Storm
4
Jim Steinmeyer, De Yip "Louie" Loo The Travel "Based on De Yip Loo's Original Effect"
person standing in box, ten swords pushed in at the left side, all slid to right side one by one to slice person which emerges unharmed
 		2009
Technique & Understanding
191
Jim Steinmeyer Trouble "A Dissected Box"
person in square box, box is opened accordion/zig-zag like, person comes out unharmed
 		2009
Technique & Understanding
221
Jim Steinmeyer Cube-ism "Apparatus that Comes and Goes"
person in box in front of a folding painting, vanishes and re-appears
 		2009
Technique & Understanding
229
Bob Evison Puncture Proof piercing a person's head with a sword, under handkerchief, only images
Also published here Nov./Dec. 2012
Genii (Vol. 75 No. 11 & 12)
60
Mike Caveney Halloween Card Stab on the back of a kneeling assistant, person stabbed
 		2013
Wonders
141
Jim Steinmeyer The Petite Illusion
  • Conjuring
on the Cane Cabinet
 		Oct. 2014
Genii (Vol. 77 No. 10)
38
Christoph Borer Die gerechte Strafe sword jammed in arm
 		2016
21
182
Martin Lewis Human Brain Vivisection
  • Making Magic
stabbing the head under a paper bag
 		Sep. 2017
Genii (Vol. 80 No. 9)
46